Percy Williams Bridgman

Percy Williams Bridgman
Bridgman in 1946
Born	(1882-04-21)April 21, 1882 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	August 20, 1961(1961-08-20) (aged 79) Randolph, New Hampshire, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University (PhD)
Known for	Bridgman seal (1914) Introducing the high-pressure torsion (1935)
Spouse	Olive Ware ​ (m. 1912)​
Awards	Rumford Prize (1917) Elliott Cresson Medal (1932) Comstock Prize in Physics (1933) Nobel Prize in Physics (1946) ForMemRS (1949)[1] Bingham Medal (1951)
Scientific career
Fields	High-pressure physics
Institutions	Harvard University (from 1910)
Thesis	Mercury Resistance as a Pressure Gauge[2]  (1908)
Doctoral advisor	Wallace Clement Sabine[2]
Doctoral students	Edwin C. Kemble (1917) John C. Slater (1923)[2] Francis Birch (1932)
Writing career
Genre	Philosophy of science
Notable works	The Logic of Modern Physics (1927)

Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882 – August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science.^[3][4][5] The Bridgman effect, the Bridgman–Stockbarger technique, and the high-pressure mineral bridgmanite are named after him.